In a message dated 4/22/2009 12:43:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com writes:
This is a wonderful idea! It could even make sense to have Metapedia as a Wikimedia project...an explicitly curatorial project that attempts to sort different kinds of content and evaluate strengths and weaknesses. It could also serve as a place to have general discussions about certain topics, without the necessity (as on Wikipedia talk pages, nominally) of focusing on content improvement; that's something that there's a need for, and something that causes specific projects to suffer because of the tendency of readers to try to start general discussions.>>
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I've noticed a number of news outlets allowing posts at the bottom of articles. You can't actually change the article itself yet, but why the heck not? They could easily set-up moderated changes. Better than some reporter slogging through 500 posts to find the one that complains about a spelling error.
I noticed somewhere that Google was giving preferential treatment to Knol articles on some content collector, but then later they stopped doing that. So apparently they felt that was a bit unfair. There's no reason I can see why a Wiki project couldn't be setup to display a Wikipedia article, a few articles from Knol on the same subject, and allow a reader comments section as well.
Will Johnson
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